Nigeria twin blasts toll rises to 110
lagos: The toll from the twin bomb attacks in Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Wednesday has risen to 110, with more injured victims being rushed to hospital for treatment, a humanitarian aid official said on Thursday.
More MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands
The Hague: Planes carrying more bodies recovered from the MH17 crash site in Ukraine were flown to the Netherlands on Thursday, a day after the first of the 298 dead arrived.
Sl nationalists allege blocking FB accounts
Colombo: Sri lankan Buddhist nationalist groups on Thursday alleged that their Facebook accounts have been blocked due to pressure from “extremists.”
Chinese man held for castrating four men
Beijing: A Chinese man, who allegedly castrated four patients with a razor at a nursing home, was arrested on Thursday in Heilongjiang province.
Militants seize part of Syrian army base
Beirut: Fighters from the extremist Islamic State group on Thursday overran part of an army base in northern Syria, which has been under the militants’ siege for months, in ferocious battles that killed or wounded dozens on both sides, activists said. The base lies in Raqqa province, where much of the territory fell to the Syrian opposition last year.
61 killed in clashes over libya airport
Tripoli: At least 61 militia personnel were killed and 100 others wounded in clashes between two libyan armed groups seeking to control Tripoli International Airport, sources said.
Pak asks Karzai to pardon jailed scribe
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday appealed to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to issue a pardon to a journalist facing a four-year jail term in Afghanistan for “contacting terrorists”.
Faizullah Khan, a reporter with the Pakistani private TV channel ARY news, was arrested in April by Afghan security forces in Nangarhar province.